Project Eyeball, 15 November 2000

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  • Title Section
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    11 1 projecteyeball. eyeball.asial.com.sg Mita (p) 077/02/2000 Wednesday, November 15, 2000 80 CENTS
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Tell us why it was banned
    112 1 Talaq There were 11 objections to the controversial play Talaq, about marital rape and violence in the Indian Muslim community. Muis, the highest Muslim religious body, cited 11 instances where references to i Quranic verses and religious L connotations would give a wrong impression
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  • Article
    Lock icon Dragging on
    38 1 Cigarettes used as bribes, ballots turn up in another continent this is the world’s greatest democracy? A1 Gore and George W Bush exchange recount threats and lawsuits as the US presidential impasse continues. See Page 11
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  • Article, Illustration
    Lock icon Tackling infertility
    79 1 Infertile couples clamouring for the Government to let them use more of their money to help them make babies may be in for some good news. MP Lily Neo stood in Parliament yesterday asking the authorities to raise the Medisave withdrawal limits for infertility treatment. And Lim Boon
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      52 1 MEMORIAL SITE It’s not all about ambulance chasers Singaporeans are logging on to pay tribute, sympathise and send messages. See Page 6 WOMEN IN POLITICAL LIFE Women face more hazards than bumping against glass ceilings. How about being strangled by a fallopian tube? Soh Wen Lin surveys the battlefield. See
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      64 1 j*\ An Estrada effigy burning yesterday in Manila near the presidential palace. Estrada’s excesses Find out how embattled Philippine President Joseph Estrada’s road to impeachment was lined with high-stakes gambling, late-night drinking sessions, and the construction of lavish mansions for his mistresses. See Page 10 For the latest on politics,
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  • News & Views
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      Lock icon QUICKIES
      197 2 THREE American exchange students in Berlin did little to enhance the credibility of their country’s voting system by failing miserably to count accurately the number of chairs in the auditorium on a German television game show. In a less-than-subtle dig at the US’ failure to produce a president-elect after
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      Lock icon More would have seen play, says Govt
      717 2  -  By June Wan and Sonny Phua sonnyp@sph.com.sg junewan@sph.com.sg IN THE end, it was Muis which decided the fate of Talaq. Its objections were so grave that even the National Arts Council’s recommendations, that it be staged if some parts were taken out, were
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      Lock icon EVENTS THAT UNFOLDED BEHIND THE SCENES
      345 2 Oct 16: First NAC (National Arts Council) preview of Talaq preview cancelled when Agni Kootthu vice-president Thenmoli objected to two Siju (South Indian Jamiathul Ulama) members on the preview party. Siju, a religious group, had objected to the play when it was performed in
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      Lock icon Focus on issue of spousal abuse
      1006 3  -  Sara Dean Executive member and chair of Aware’s Women and Safety Committee saradean@pacific.net.sg THUS far, arguments for the banning of Talaq have clouded the real issue at the heart of the play, which is spousal abuse. The facts are especially sobering, considering how most
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      Lock icon MP SINGLES OUT SINGLE PARENTS
      236 4  -  ALSO IN PARLIAMENT Joanna Lim SINGLE parenthood. Yes, the issue best remembered as the taboo topic that incurred the displeasure of no less than Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, at the 1994 National Day Rally, resurfaced yesterday in Parliament. Then, singling out a newspaper columnist
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      Lock icon Govt tackles pregnant issue
      489 4  -  Help for the infertile raised in Parliament By Sue-Ann Chia sueann@sph.com.sg FINALLY, the Government is listening to the plea of the infertile. And the person who championed their cause in Parliament yesterday was Dr Lily Neo, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Kreta AyerTanglin GRC. In
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      Lock icon Family-friendly policies
      421 4  -  Joanna Lim DR LILY Neo (Kreta Ayer GRC) yesterday unveiled her wish-list to make Singapore more pro-family. Here’s a sampling of her suggestions, and the responses that they attracted from Minister Without Portfolio Lim Boon Heng. INDIVIDUALS Lily Neo: Reconsider traditional gender roles at home men aren’t just
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    • Article
      Lock icon Teens get chance to Say It
      349 5  -  Marine Parade CDC to give young residents a taste of policy-making By Desmond Wong local@eyeball.com.sg ALWAYS thought the town was being run by old guys from the grassroots committees? Well, here’s your chance to change that. Even if you are only a teenager. The
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      Lock icon Mother of all online opinion polls
      518 5  -  PLANET PROJECT TAKES OFF By Eri Akbar eri@sph.com.sg HERE, scratch your brains. If it were legal to clone yourself, would you do it? If you could adjust the DNA of your child towards either independence or obedience, which would you choose? If there were
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      Lock icon MIND OVER MONEY
      175 5 THERE are about 160 multiple-choice questions in 3Com’s Planet Project online poll, and they come in eight languages. Planet Project recently posed local celebrities a special set of questions. Here’s one of them: If you were offered US$5 million but had to give up your aspirations, would
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      Lock icon Tragedy brings out best in Netizens
      807 6  -  Beyond the lawsuits and blame-shifting, lies compassion By Alvin Pang alvinp@sph.com.sg IF YOU thought the SQOO6 crash brought out only the worst in people the blame game, the talk of lawsuits surf further on the Internet. You might hit on Jeannette Sim’s site, Travelnetic.com.
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      Lock icon Making it safer to play
      394 6  -  PLAYGROUNDS TO BE INSPECTED By Dawn Lee dawnlee@sph.com.sg IT’S odd to see grown-ups tinkering around playgrounds, but they are not there to play. Armed with plastic widgets and rings, they are working on childproofing playgrounds to prevent accidents. Some 50 Singaporeans are starting their training
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      Lock icon A congregation full of eminence
      47 7 Catholic bishops participating in the 6oth annual meeting of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops on Monday. The conference opened with calls to abolish the death penalty, reverse Supreme Court decisions on abortion rights, and welcome immigrants to the church. AP
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    • Local LOG
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        Lock icon 7 drug traffickers, 117 abusers nabbed
        147 7 IT TOOK all of 13 hours, but in the end Operation Dragnet was able to haul in seven traffickers and 117 abusers yesterday. The Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) has been going out in full force to combat drug abuse, and has conducted 16 such
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      • Article
        Lock icon Shorter hours for 8 Community Centres
        135 7 SHORTER hours, but faster and better service. That is the rationale behind a project being initiated by the People’s Association to revise the operating hours of modern Community Centres/Clubs (CCs). Under the scheme, selected CCs will open two hours later than usual from Mondays
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        Lock icon A&E direct access for special cases
        96 7 TIRED of having to sit through the seemingly endless queues at accident and emergency departments? The National Healthcare Group (NHG) has a new direct access scheme to help cut down on the hassle. Direct Access to Hospital Services will allow patients who require hospital
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        Lock icon CPF Investment Scheme revised
        133 7 REGULAR Premium insurance policies will no longer be available. The Central Provident Fund (CPF) announced that it has revised its CPF Investment Scheme for the benefit of its members. These policies were found to disadvantage policy holders as they require a long-term financial commitment, requiring regular
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        Lock icon Donation drive for Manila kids
        139 7 DOING your year-end spring cleaning for the festive season? Before you chuck out your old pillow cases, basins, comic books and stationeries, stop and save them for Emery Worldwide’s upcoming donation drive. Spurred by the overwhelming success of its pilot community project “Movers of Hope”
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      Lock icon Cooperation the key to air safety, says minister
      250 7 Higher traffic is challenge to aviation industry, says Dr Chen SAFETY took centre stage at yesterday’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) Asia Pacific Conference, but for the most part, officials sidestepped the issues directly related to the SQOO6 crash. “Aviation safety is of
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      Lock icon Animals back after 40 days at sea
      155 9 Reuters DURBAN (South Africa) A modern-day Noah’s Ark brought 22 giraffes and three rhinos home to South Africa on Monday, after 40 days of fruitless sailing around the continent. The animals were captured earlier this year and left Durban on Oct 5 for
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    • World WIDE
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        Lock icon SIA to pay for Taiwanese funerals
        95 9 TAIPEI Singapore Airlines is paying up to US$4O,OOO (5569,600) towards funeral expenses to the families of the Taiwanese victims of the SQOO6 crash, according to media reports. The payment is in addition to the US$4OO,OOO offered to the families of all crash victims, according
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        Lock icon Police vigil to catch Tommy fruitless
        158 9 Wires JAKARTA As Suharto yesterday lay ill in bed and hooked up to oxygen, police arrived to check if they could catch the former president’s fugitive son Tommy at his bedside. But their vigil proved unsuccessful, although they searched Suharto’s and Tommy’s houses for
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      • Article
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        79 9 Reuters KAPRUN The Alpine funicular train, in which over 150 skiers died in a tunnel blaze last weekend, may have developed a fault soon after leaving the valley station. Revealing this, police technical investigator Christian Tisch also told a news conference yesterday that a chemical
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      • Article
        Lock icon Police squeezed my genitals’
        147 9 AP KUALA LUMPUR A Malaysian mechanic yesterday alleged that police had squeezed his genitals with a pair of pliers to try to make him confess to a theft. His account was the latest in a series of allegations of police brutality in recent days. S Ganasan,
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        Lock icon Pay fine or face arrest, drivers told
        84 9 AFP KUALA LUMPUR Some 275,000 Malaysian drivers with unpaid fines dating back for years and totalling tens of millions of dollars have been told to pay up in two weeks or face arrest, police said yesterday. Newspapers gave conflicting figures for the total
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      Lock icon Israel seals off Palestinian towns
      218 9 Move aimed to curb drive-by shootings Wires JERUSALEM Israel yesterday accused the Palestinians of hatching a new terror tactic which it called “death on the roads” and threatened to retaliate. It said the strategy, which involved drive-by shooting attacks, was used by Palestinian gunmen to
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      Lock icon Estrada’s his own worst enemy
      1251 10  -  His excesses have become his undoing By Thomas Fuller Iht MANILA In April 1999, top Philippine officials took the unusual step of requesting a meeting with one of President Joseph Estrada’s mistresses. The officials had an important message to relay to the president and considered
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    • US Elections 2000
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        Lock icon Wisconsin voters bribed with cigarettes
        542 11 Other twists to election story include ballot papers appearing in Denmark Wires MILWAUKEE It’s become a joke by now. No points for guessing that we are talking about the American elections. As it turns out, it’s even more bizarre than it seemed initially. In Wisconsin,
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      • Article
        Lock icon Bush loses first legal skirmish
        332 11 JUDGE OKAYS MANUAL RECOUNT Wires MIAMI The fight for the White House tumbled into the courts as a transfixed nation witnessed the historic entanglement of presidential politics and the judiciary. After two hours of argument about the link between democracy and ballot punches, a federal
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      • Article
        Lock icon OTHER POSSIBLE RECOUNTS
        231 11 AP WHILE the Florida recount rages on, five other states have reported close votes, raising the possibility of even more recounts: lowa Gore leads by 4,285 votes out of nearly 1.3 million cast. His lead was narrowed after the counting of absentee votes and ballots that were
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    • Article
      Lock icon BIZ SITE OF THE DAY: www.apply 4me. com
      194 12  -  Nicholas Yong IF YOU are too busy to apply for credit cards, this site could be a blessing. All you need is to find the time to fill up an online form, and the site will do the rest. The site provides
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      Lock icon Bulls&Bears
      82 12 Straits Times Index (STT Top 3 Active VOLUME CENTS Omlnd 45,969,000 372 PCI 37,710,000 156 OUBDBeCW*****3 34,837,000 13 Top 3 Gainers CENTS Venture 1630 80 5.2 Creative 50 2740 50 1.9 SIA200 1700 50 3.0 Total number of gainers: 216 Top 3 Losers CENTS OUBDBeCW0204I5 13 79 85.9 Hai
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      Lock icon Priceline.Com no longer a high-flier
      742 12 Website loses appeal with novelty of unique pricing concept wearing off AP CONNECTICUT Name your own price for airline tickets. It sounded like a traveller’s dream when Priceline.com began offering the service in 1998. It also seemed a perfect business model for the Internet. Priceline’s
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    • Article
      Lock icon DBS goes red in face after breach
      454 13  -  Bank says it was a freak incident By Andrew Chin andrewc@sph.com.sg CHEEKS were flaming red at DBS’s Internet Banking division yesterday. A Selena Huynh Kim Lien wrote in to The Straits Times Forum page describing how she had tried many combinations at DBS’
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      Lock icon Palm wins show of hands at Comdex
      417 13 GREAT PDA DEBATE AP LAS VEGAS The pleasantries didn’t last long in the battle of the handheld computers, and while Palm seemed to win the first great debate against Microsoft’s PocketPC, the margin was close enough to demand a recount. The war of
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    • Article, Illustration
      Lock icon Redefining the role of Pelu
      1176 14 Two Nominated MPs and an MP rose to make impassioned pleas to leave the performing arts out of the reach of the Public Entertainment Bill, which was amended by Parliament on Monday to give licensing officers more muscle. Here are excerpts of their speeches, and
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    • Single’s SAY
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        Lock icon Glass breakers unite!
        575 15  -  Soh Wen Lin wenlin@brandeis.edu “If there really is a glass ceiling, I would urge the women in Singapore to organise themselves to break this ceiling.” PM Goh Chok Tong at the NUS Society’s Millennium Lecture, challenging Singaporean women to play a bigger political role. FACING a glass
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      • Article
        Lock icon Drop system based on exams
        291 15 New school of teachers taking over (Nov 14) SOME 3,500 old-time teachers will retire in the next five years. Taking their places will be 7,000 young teachers, bringing the median age of teachers down from 43 in 1996, to 33 in 2005. What difference will
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
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      25 2 (food morning! f Periods of showers, with thunder at times, in the afternoon. High: 32C 1 Low: 24C Tides: 1.37AM/2.9M 12.39PM/3.1M Met Service: http:/ www.gov.sg/metsin
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      63 5 Interested to try your hand at “Say It”? Then don’t delay. Apply for a spot at the Marine Parade Community Development Council website at http://www.mpcdc. org or e-mail them at community@mpcdc.org. For the less technologically inclined, inquiries can be made through fax at *****30. Check out what other local celebrities
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      38 10 http://www.inquirer. net/impeach/ estradatriaLhtm Follow the twists of the upcoming Estrada trial here. http://www.philcong ress.com/know senator.khtml Put the faces to the names of the senators judging Estrada. http://www.iht.com/IHT/ TODAY/TUE/FPAGE/ estrada.2.html Read the full profile of Estrada by the IHT.
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      48 11 The election thriller’s in the courts as Gore’s lawyers go for an extension on Florida’s count deadline. http^/www.eyebalL asiaLcomjsg http://www.latimes.com/ news/politics/ decision2ooo/ la foxoolll4.htm The man who rushed the TV networks into crowning Bush George W’s cousin. http:// www.msnbc.com/ news/*****9.a5p Hillary Clinton’s “generous” offer to break the deadlock.
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      36 12 Book tickets and tours online at these local travel agencies: http://travel.kenair.com.sg Ken Air’s comprehensive online reservation system. http://www.satours.com SA (UIC) Tours offers tour packages, air tickets and accommodation. http://www.centurytravel.com.sg Century Travel specialises in air ticketing online.
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  • Page 13 Miscellaneous
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      36 13 HELEN, SWEETHEART OF THE INTERNET 10-23 WHAT HAVE I POME? o HELEN, VO YOU EVER HAVE CRAZY (PEAS? HEE HEE HEE O TAP o TAP TAP m TAP TAP TAP OENTER TAP TAP TAP /A ■■K
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      27 14 Log onto http^/eyebalLasiaLconusg for the full speeches, and visit our forum to say if you think Pelu should be the one-stop body to monitor the performing arts.
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  • EyeSport
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      Lock icon Vincent fails to deliver
      210 16 A FEW samples from our message board on the Lions’ performance in Songkhla: SINGAPORE should forget about 2010! Our current, so-called national team is no better than a schoolboy team. Please spare us further heartache and shame. In soccer, there is no two way about it,
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      Lock icon Strikers stink
      811 16  -  Lions have to score to regain its winning ways By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg THE next World Cup qualifiers are only a month away. Come December, Singapore’s coach Vincent Subramaniam will lead his charges out once again, in a bid to qualify for the 2002 World Cup finals in
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      Lock icon Tryst in Turin: Who cares?
      481 17 England’s lacklustre form takes shine away from friendly AFP TURIN (Italy) Not so long ago a match between Italy and England would have been billed as a clash between football’s superpowers. But, while Italy’s near success in the Euro 2000 campaign and encouraging subsequent form
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    • Sport IN SHORT
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        Lock icon Belgian upset
        66 17 AP NEW YORK Belgian teenager Kim Clijsters, playing in her first Chase Championships, upset Arantxa Sanchez- Vicario in the first round of the WTA Tour’s season finale yesterday. Clijsters won with a score of 7-5,6-4 over the veteran Spaniard. In another match, Conchita Martinez beat Elena Likhovtseva 2-6,6-4,6-3.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Campion’s woes
        87 17 Wires LONDON World squash champion Cassie Campion will rest for three months after a back operation and cannot defend her world title here this week, reports from Edinburgh said. The 27-year-old Englishwoman had 20 per cent of the discs removed from her back last week and may not
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        Lock icon Martinez wins
        62 18 NEW YORK-Boston Red Sox righthander Pedro Martinez was voted the unanimous winner of the American League Cy Young Award for the second straight year. The Dominican native received all 28 first-place votes in, balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Martinez of the Red Sox was
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        Lock icon Thomas injured
        41 18 MIAMI Former Buffalo Bills great and current Miami Dolphins running back Thurman Thomas may have played his last NFL game. The Dolphins confirmed that Thomas suffered a torn right anterior cruciate ligament in Sunday’s 17-7 win in San Diego.
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        Lock icon Spinks arrested
        51 18 WILMINGTON Former heavyweight boxing champion Michael Spinks was arrested for allegedly beating his girlfriend over the weekend, police said. While he was being arraigned on the assault charges, court records revealed an outstanding arrest warrant against Spinks for skipping a child-support hearing. Spinks was released on bail on
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        Lock icon Romario out
        63 19 Wires BRASILIA Veteran striker Romario, who has scored seven goals in the last two internationals, is out of the Brazilian team after a training injury. His bitter rival Edmundo replaces him in tomorrow’s World Cup qualifier against Colombia that Brazil must win to get into the 2002 World
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        Lock icon Batistuta too
        43 19 Wires SANTIAGO Also out for the qualifiers are a list of Argentine players, including Gabriel Batistuta. The Argentine captain has a sore throat and high fever. Coach Marcelo Bielsa is also without Hernan Crespo, Pablo Aimar, Claudio Lopez and Diego Simeone.
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      • Article
        Lock icon Festa leaving
        55 19 Wires LONDON Former Inter Milan defender Gianluca Festa will leave English Premiership club Middlesbrough. He joined the club for £2.7 million (556.75 million) four years ago. “I can accept being on the bench if the team is doing well, but we are not,” he said. Middlesbrough is 18th
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      27 17 O “The bubble has finally burst.” Singapore coach Vincent Subramaniam, on his team’s loss to Malaysia and inability to defend the Tiger Cup.
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      Lock icon England’s line-up
      454 17 For many in Peter Taylors new-look side, the match in Turin will be a chance to shine and stake a permanent place in the England squad. But how did they fare in the weekend’s round of Premiership action? ADAM HASHIDY (hashidy@sph.corn sg) assesses the players likely to have
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      Lock icon QUOTE OF THE DAY
      35 18 “THE human animal is changing...the body has softened...so has the mind. They do not know how to suffer, are not willing to suffer.” Alex Ferguson, on the new crop of players.
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      Lock icon ‘We want more too’
      473 18 Williams sisters deserve it, says dad Wires NEW YORK It’s one thing when Tiger Woods complains. It’s quite another when fathers of wanna-be sports legends whine. A week after Woods expressed discontent with the PGA Tour, the father of Venus and Serena, said his daughters were
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    • Bench WARMERS
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        Lock icon Here are the nominees...
        387 18  -  WANTED: BRADFORD CITY MANAGER By Zaki Amrullah zaki@sph.com.sg ENGLISH Premiership club Bradford City’s recent sacking of manager Chris Hutchings has given hope to many aspiring managers. We take a look at possible replacements who could make the Bantam faithful and club chairman Geoffrey Richmond happy, including
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      Lock icon DID YOU KNOW?
      37 19 LIVERPOOL midfielder Patrick Berger was signed from Sparta Prague in September 1996? The Czech-born player made his Reds debut in a 2-1 win over Southampton. He has now made 116 appearances, scoring 27 goals.
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      Lock icon Blazers lead all the way
      333 19 Injury-hit Nets fail at home Reuters EAST RUTHERFORD Rasheed Wallace scored seven of his 16 points in the first 12 minutes as the Portland Trail Blazers built a 19point lead, then held on for a 94-82 victory over the New Jersey Nets. New Jersey clawed
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      Lock icon Iversons’s image in danger of improving
      491 19 BAD LAD TURNS A NEW LEAF AP PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson better be careful or he just might shed his bad-boy image. Iverson, once the poster boy for the NBA’s me-first generation, seems to have changed his ways. His play and attitude are the main
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      34 17 Which Premiership striker impressed you the most this season? Is it Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink or the evergreen Teddy Sheringham? Or someone else? Log on to conusg/Eyeball/Sports/ to take part in our poll.
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  • Unwind
    • Travel
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        865 20 STEPHEN ROTE WELL (pedas@eyeball.com.sg) falls under the spell of the world's wildest rainforest in Sabah’s Danum Valley. ECAY is beautiful, flickering everywhere I walk in luminous green like fallen fireflies glowing for last time. All around, a throng of animals lend their approval to the rot with a
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        219 21 BORNEO Rainforest Lodge has to be the premier location for viewing tropical wildlife, such as orangutans, and for learning as much as one wants about any aspect of rainforest eco-systems. The whole blends seamlessly into the valley, a mere 28 twin-bed rooms spread airily around boardwalks, nature rambles
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    • Arts
      • Travel SHELF
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          Lock icon California, here I come!
          69 22 THIS is one promotion you just can’t miss. For $1,388, you can head out to Los Angeles or San Francisco with Cathay Pacific, and stay in one of three hotels. To top up this offer, you also get to enjoy a free night in Hong Kong
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          Lock icon Cheap trip to Sydney
          59 22 IT’S hard to resist the Olympic city. Now, Misa Travel is offering a $500 (adults) and $433 (child) return economy fare to Sydney on Egypt Air, for a stay of up to 60 days. Promotional fares are valid till Nov 30. You can reach Misa Travel
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          Lock icon Cameron Highlands break
          58 22 IF YOU’RE looking for a quick getaway to a nearby destination, check out this Cameron Highlands offer. For three days and two nights, you can stay at the popular Strawberry Park along the hills, at $115. The price includes one meal. Head to Linus Travel or call
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          Lock icon Free stopover in Brunei
          49 22 THOSE flying to Darwin on Royal Brunei Airways can now experience a two-day, one-night Brunei tour free. The package price tag of $797 includes a one night stay at Traders Inn, with breakfast. Contact Focal Travel at 535 3433 or Century Travel at 438 7133.
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          Lock icon Asia on a budget
          42 22  -  Hera Chua JET ABOUT Holidays presents Budget-Asia, ideal for seasoned travellers. Head out to Bintan spa resorts from $115, Hong Kong from $529 or Koh Samui from $458. Prices include airfare or ferry, accommodation and transfer. Cali *****18.
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        639 22 Harry Potter is coming to a toy store near you, guaranteed to drive tykes and parents potty. JRANHKARIE TAN (jeanm@sph.com.sg) reports from Mattel's toy fair in Kuala Lumpur. Chuck those Dungeons and Dragons role-playing sets away. A new fantasy bigwig is making waves none other than beloved teen wizard
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          92 23 STUTTGART, Arkansas is marking Thanksgiving Day with a duck calling contest from Nov 18 to 25. Duck calling has a rich heritage which goes all the way back to 1936. The annual Arkansas contest attracts thousands of sportsmen from all over the United States. Contenders are given
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          68 23 THE annual Dooh Dah parade in California has gained an international reputation for its outrageous and out-of-the-way novelty. Dooh Dah has no theme, no judges, no prizes, no march order and welcomes everyone of any age, size, shape, colour and mental state. The 24th annual parade hits the
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          41 23 SULTRY singer Aimee Mann, who scored the soundtrack for the movie Magnolia, is performing in Madison Garden, New York, on Nov 19 as part of the Tennis Against Breast Cancer Celebrity Fund-raising. Visit http://www. aimeemann.com for more details.
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          91 23  -  Hera Chua IF YOU can’t get enough of the rough and tumble world of rugby, fly to Dubai for the three-day International Rugby Tournament from Nov 22 to 24. The Emirates International Trophy provides a new dimension with 16 of the world’s top nations including New Zealand,
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        456 23 All you need to enjoy music down to making it can he had at this years Musicfest, which also boasts rare concerts by both local and foreign talents at venues across the island. Ids time to start grooving, reports RON RAJ AN (ronrajan@sph.com.sg). MAGINE, if you will,
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        426 24  -  By June Wan junewan@sph.com.sg N THE Avenue of the Cosmonauts in Berlin, families live in small flats, not unlike the three-room HDB flats here in Singapore. Those in Berlin are so tiny that a sofa which is all families often have the space for is usually
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        199 24  -  Ronald Rjan YOU might not usually find them around these parts in large numbers, but come this weekend, more than 30 local and international street-busking acts will breathe life into Singapore’s riverfront. The venue will play host to the fourth annual Singapore River Buskers’ Festival from
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        741 25 Kam Ning, this years Young Artist Award winner, talks to TAN DAWN WEI dawntan@sph.com.sg) about steaks, Vanessa Mae and coming home. T’LL be a sweet homecoming when music prodigy Kam Ning returns next week for a violin recital at the Jubilee Hall. The violinist not only recently received
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        358 25 June Wan SABRI Buang, who was to have directed the Malay version of the controversial play Talaq, has been invited by the award-winning theatre company Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit to direct a new production of Medea, a Greek tragedy by Euripides. Medea
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        457 26 Theatreworks is bringing 70 foreign artists together to explore modern Asian expression, and as JUNE WAN (junewan@sph.com.sg) discovers, this could lead to something...climatic. IG into the psyche of any artist and he’ll tell you that in the arts, the means mean more than the end. He might
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          106 26 KOREAN pianist Jinho Kim will perform at a concert in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Dinu Lipatti’s last recital Dinu Lipatti, one of the most talented and gifted Romanian pianists, died on Dec 2,1950, at 34. To commemorate his death anniversary, The Nanyang Academy of Fine
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          69 26 THE Asean Arts Awards 2000 Exhibition comprises 41 contemporary art works by established artists from the region and will be showcased at the Singapore Art Museum. It’s a visual feast: The works range from traditional oils to mixed-media pieces and reflect the artists’ socio-economic background. The
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          129 26 FANS 0f1999 Cultural Medallion Award-winning artist Chua Ek Kay will be delighted to know that his latest work will be unveiled in an upcoming exhibition called Lyrical Spaces. The 53-year-old Chua began his artistic career in 1975, specialising in traditional Chinese ink-style painting. Since then, he has
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          138 26  -  Hera Chua THE classic Chinese fable Sampek Engtay (The Butterfly Lovers) has long been a favourite in the Indonesian archipelago. In the last 12 years, the Indonesian translation of the famous romance has been playing to sell out audiences. Now it’s the turn for Singaporean audiences to
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      29 24 Find out more about the festival at http://www.singapore-buskers.com. And to get the low-down on some of the street-side showmen who will be gracing the festival, log on to httre//eveball.agial.com.sg
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      53 24 Allee der Kosmonauten will be performed at the Victoria Theatre tomorrow night at 8. Tickets, at $l5, $25 and $35, are available via Ticketcharge (296-2929), or at the door. And be sure to get an early taste of Berlin on your monitor. See Allee der Kosmonauten on video before seeing
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      52 25 Kam Ning’s violin recital is on Nov 26, 8 pm at the Jubilee Hall. The programme includes Kam Kong Yong’s Yue Yun Tang Shi Qu (worldpremiere). Tickets at $2O available from Sistic (348 5555). Kam Kong Yong’s art exhibition Metamorphosis is atArtfolio Space, Raffles Hotel Arcade, 02-25, from today till
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      33 26 Wu Er Shan, a young video installation artist of Mongolian descent based in Beijing, projects a pop narrative in his work featuring multimedia performances that involve jazz and dances. Watch him at httjK//eyeball.asial.coin.sg
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      258 27 PHRASES that you probably shouldn’t use at work, but would like to: How about never? Is never good for you? I see you’ve set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. Someday, we’ll look back on this, laugh nervously and change the subject. I will
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      344 27 Reeves is Neo, a computer hacker who stumbles onto the secret of The Matrix. Variety An Audience With Tom Jones 8 pm Star World 18 Singing superstar Tom Jones will strut his stuff in front of a celebrity audience in this musical extravaganza. Showbnzz 8.30 pm TCS 5 Let Vivien
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      159 28 Then last Friday, the star of The Perfect Storm even flew Snowdon out to see him and brought her to a taping of the television sitcom Friends. Said a crew member: “George didn’t let go of Lisa’s hand the whole night. They were giggling and whispering.
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      118 28 WILD Thing Denise Richards (right) may look fabulous most days of the week but she too has had her fair share of fashion boo-boos, reports IMDb.com. She said: “Fashion has become such a huge part of Hollywood. Actors have taken the place of models on the front
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        264 28 Wires HE may or may not have lured Gwyneth Paltrow back into his arms, but Ben Affleck (below) sure isn’t letting that stop him from having some fun. At Carrie Fisher’s recent 44th birthday party, the Star Wars princess spent half the night
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